From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses, past and present, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable... The Popular Science Monthly - Page 4701886Full view - About this book
| 1885 - 532 pages
...similar Society formed in England in 1882, is (to quote from the proceedings of the latter) to make " an organized and systematic attempt to investigate...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are priind facie... | |
| Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - 1883 - 384 pages
...THE SOCIETY. It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune time for making an organised and systematic attempt to investigate that large group...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are prima facie... | |
| 1884 - 652 pages
...an important bod}- of remarkable phenomena, resting upon the testimony of many competent witnesses, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, and prima facie inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis. The distinction of its founders... | |
| B M Marshall - 356 pages
...importance." And here it may be well to give the statement emlwlied in the objects of the Psychical Society. " From the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses,...observations recently made by scientific men of eminence m various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of... | |
| 1884 - 660 pages
...an important body of remarkable phenomena, resting upon the testimony of manj- competent witnesses, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, and primd facie inexplicable on an}' generally recognized hypothesis. The distinction of its founders... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 668 pages
...an important body of remarkable phenomena, resting upon the testimony of many competent witnesses, including observations recently made by scientific men of eminence in various countries, and primd facie inexplicable on any generally recognized hypothesis. The distinction of its founders... | |
| 1885 - 788 pages
...purpose of making an organised and systematic attempt to investigate that large group of debateable phenomena designated by such terms as mesmeric, psychical,...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are primd facie... | |
| William Alfred Hovey - 1885 - 218 pages
...Iteserred. MIND-READING. ELECTROTYPE!) BY CJ PETERS ASD Sox, BOSTON. MIND-READING AND BEYOND. i. " FROM the recorded testimony of many competent witnesses,...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena which are prima fade... | |
| M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 780 pages
...such terms as mesmeric psychical, and spiritualistic. From the recorded testimony of many compctcnt witnesses, past and present, including observations...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are primA fade... | |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - 1889 - 264 pages
...adequate as that of the Society for Psychical Research. The prospectus of this society says : — " It has been widely felt that the present is an opportune...eminence in various countries, there appears to be, amidst much illusion and deception, an important body of remarkable phenomena, which are primd facie... | |
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